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11 unusual facts about Visayas


Chris Ducker

Ducker was the Keynote Speaker at the 2011 Visayas Blogging Summit and a featured speaker at the 2011 BlogWorld Expo in Los Angeles, California.

DYWV

DYWV is an FM radio station in the Philippines owned, operated and under the supervision of the College of Mass Communications, the leading mass communication school in Visayas and Mindanao, under the brand dyWV Radio West Visayas .

Francisco F. Villanueva

Francisco Felipe Villanueva (born 10 October 1867, Molo, Iloilo City, Visayas; died 25 August 1923) was a Filipino political leader during the Philippine–American War.

Villanueva served as the Visayan delegate to the Malolos Congress, where he conferred with Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo and Apolinario Mabini to assure that the Visayas would be included in nascent First Philippine Republic.

Jessie Dellosa

His other post prior to being Northern Luzon commander include: Commanding General of the 2nd Infantry Division, Deputy Commander of Central Command in Visayas, Commandant of Cadets at the Philippine Military Academy.

Jose Rafael Diaz

His first job was as analyst for Visayas' and Mindanao's Regional Offices for the Far East Bank & Trust Co. from 1988 – 1999.

Melchor F. Cichon

Cichon is also the Head of the Readers Services Section of the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Miag-ao, Iloilo.

Muro-Ami

It is a look at the poverty in the Visayas , primarily seen through the eyes of the coral fishers (Muro-Ami).

Philippine Lottery Draw

The game was initially introduced in Luzon, with a separate game for the Visayas and Mindanao geographical regions as a single unit.

Initially played only in the Visayas and Mindanao geographical regions, there are two midday draws exclusively for players in the said regions aside from a third primetime nationwide draw.

Rabies vaccine

The development of the vaccine resulted in the elimination of rabies in many parts of the Visayas and Mindanao Islands.


Alex C. Delos Santos

He completed his Master of Education with an academic excellence award from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas.

Baybay

VSU is the only university in the region recognized by the Department of Tourism in the entire Visayas region as a tourist site for its resorts, convention facilities, and most of all its 180-degree view of Mount Pangasugan and the Camotes Sea.

Crocodile farming in the Philippines

The PWRCC sold saltwater crocodile products to seven "authorized commercial operators" in the regions of Luzon (particularly in Batangas, Cavite, Rizal, and Tarlac), Visayas (such as in Negros Occidental), and Mindanao (including Cagayan de Oro and Davao del Norte).

Dapitan

The city also boasts of Fantasyland, the first amusement park in the Visayas-Mindanao region.

El Salvador, Misamis Oriental

These are Asia Brewery, Tanduay Rhum, Virgin Cola Bottling Plant (Visayas and Mindanao region distributor), Highland Fresh Daily Products, Monark Equipment, The Aoso, Zest-O Corporation, WL Foods Corporation, Universal Robina Corporation and Union Plywood Corporation.

Panaghoy sa Suba

The film is Cesar Montano's directorial debut with an almost entirely Visayan cast, and together with young film maker R.D. Alba, one of the movie's producers who studied film in Hollywood, they made perhaps the biggest film ever to be shot in its entirety in the Visayas.

Panay Liberation Day

As part of that campaign, the Battle of the Visayas began on March 18, 1945 with the Allied landing at Tigbauan, Iloilo on Panay.

Philippines–Thailand relations

There were also ceramic wares from Sukhothai and Sawankhalok found in Luzon and Visayas region as evidence of early relations.

Pototan, Iloilo

During the Philippine Revolution, Pototanons such as Teresa Magbanua (known as the Joan of arc of the Visayas) and her two brothers, Elias and Pascual Magbanua took up arms and joined the revolution.

San Carlos, Negros Occidental

Located along the coast of Tañon Strait, the city is located at the crossroads of four major cities in the Visayas: Cebu City, Bacolod City, Iloilo City and Dumaguete City.